Chapter 332: New Big Items
The quilts you bring back have to have their covers removed and washed, and the quilt cores have to be aired before they can be put away.
The weather is still a bit cold, so the washed clothes need to be wrung out vigorously before being hung out to dry, otherwise they will not be dry in a week, not to mention such a large quilt cover. Even if two people wring it out together, it will still be wet when it is twisted as tight as possible and then unfolded.
Zhao Yeqing smacked his lips and said hesitantly, "How about... we bring back a washing machine?"
The hesitation was not because he was afraid that Mu Xi would have an opinion, but because he was also wondering whether using the washing machine was a waste of electricity.
Unexpectedly, Mu Xi had no objection at all. No one knew what he was thinking, but he agreed to Zhao Yeqing's proposal without hesitation: "Okay, I'll move it back today?"
Zhao Yeqing, who was still a little hesitant, was emboldened by Mu Xi's decisiveness: "Let's go together."
So the two people, who had just left the tourist area not long ago, drove back.
What the two men didn't know was that this coincidence completely dispelled the idea of the jackals that were still on the lookout to return to the tourist area. They thought that the two men really wanted to live here permanently, so they led their tribe away with resigned minds.
Zhao Yeqing screened various washing machines in the entire tourist area and finally selected a ten-kilogram pulsator washing machine. Compared with a drum washing machine, a pulsator washing machine requires less power. Apart from the fact that it easily pulls the sleeves of clothes when washing, and makes the clothes too long and deformed, it has no other problems.
She personally thinks it washes cleaner than a drum.
The washing machine also has a drying function, but she probably won't use this function much, as washing and spinning is enough.
The power of washing clothes is about 200 watts, and the power of spinning clothes is 500 watts. In other words, it only takes 0.2 kWh of electricity to wash clothes for one hour, and only 0.5 kWh of electricity to spin dry clothes for one hour.
Generally speaking, it won't take that long to wash a bucket of clothes if you wash them quickly, and it will take less than half a kilowatt-hour of electricity to wash and dry each bucket of clothes.
The two of them don't use a washing machine to wash clothes on a daily basis, unless it's for large items like quilt covers that can't be washed so clean by hand.
The temperature is high in summer, so it may only be used when the weather is cold or rainy, so it will not consume many kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.
Zhao Yeqing felt a little regretful. If he had known that he would move a washing machine home after getting the generator, it would be a pity that the two of them only changed the sheets and quilt covers twice throughout the whole winter. If they were hung outside to dry, they would freeze hard, so they could only take them to dry next to the fireplace in the house.
The space for activities was originally small, and the area with floor heating that was warm enough was used to accommodate four dogs, cook, and store a lot of things. After hanging out the quilts and sheets to dry, there was no room to even turn around.
This washing machine is a single-tub type and does not take up much space. However, the trunk still cannot hold it, so the two of them folded down the rear seats of the car to stuff the washing machine in.
The only trouble is that when washing clothes, you cannot directly connect the water inlet pipe to the faucet like in daily household use. You can only add water manually every time you wash.
After moving the washing machine home, Mu Xi first used a screwdriver to unscrew the screws on the four corners of the washing tub. After taking the tub apart for cleaning, he fixed the washing machine in the space inside the brick wall, near the kitchen door. Now he wanted to wash the quilt and test whether it worked well.
The white hotel quilt covers are not very thick, and one bucket can wash about three quilt covers. When the two were searching for washing machines in the tourist area, they also carried the remaining laundry detergents, laundry powders, soaps, laundry beads and other washing products from every household into the car.
After filling the bucket with water, pour it into the washing machine. When the water level reaches the standard, the washing machine will make a dripping sound and start running after closing the lid.
In order to save electricity, Zhao Yeqing uses the quick wash and spin dry method. The whole process takes about 40 minutes and consumes about 0.5 degrees of electricity.
"This washing machine is quite useful. The quilt covers that come out of it are almost completely dry. Even in winter, I don't think I'll need the drying function very often. I can just dry them by the fire after washing them. They'll probably be completely dry in half a day."
After moving the washing machine back home, Zhao Yeqing felt as happy as if he had purchased a new big item for his home. He was very satisfied with the washing machine.
More than an hour had passed since she washed all the quilt covers and hung them outside in the yard, and Mu Xi's surveillance camera had also been installed.
What is better than what the two had imagined before is that there are two ways to view the surveillance. One is to store the surveillance video of the day in the memory card in the monitor, and take out the card to view it when you want to view it. The other way is to connect to the device with a signal cable and view it in real time.
This surveillance is the official surveillance of the tourist area. The signal line is long enough to cover every corner of the tourist area. Therefore, even if the surveillance camera is placed next to the planting area, the line is long enough to connect to the computer in the brick house.
In addition to the two laptops found in the tourist area, Zhao Yeqing also brought the laptop she left in Meishan, which contained a lot of TV dramas and movies she had downloaded.
The surveillance camera is also connected to her computer, so she can switch windows at any time to check the surveillance camera while watching a drama without having to keep two computers running and wasting electricity.
At night, the two checked the surveillance camera and found that it was still clear and the night vision was good. Zhao Yeqing stared at the camera with great interest and did not notice any animals approaching their house until going to bed.
It could also be related to the smell she left around the yard when she caught Huhu and Xuebing a few days ago, which is why no animals dared to approach.
As the weather has gotten warmer recently, these clouded leopards have gradually left home and never returned, only showing up every two or three days. Sometimes they would catch a rabbit or other prey and put it in the yard. By the time the two men discovered the rabbit, the clouded leopards had long disappeared.
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I don’t know if this is in response to what Zhao Yeqing said when it snowed on New Year’s Eve more than a year ago: Next year will definitely be a good year with good weather and good harvest.
The weather has been very good since dawn this year, so good that both of them felt a little dazed that there has never been any extreme cold or heat.
After the first drizzle, tender green buds gradually appeared on the gray meadow.
This emergence was a spectacular event. It seemed as if these grass sprouts were using up all of the energy they had accumulated while dormant underground for a whole year. In less than a week, the entire meadow was covered with green.
The sunshine is like the key to life, finally ushering in spring to the desolate world that has been silent for more than a year.
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